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► 成句
  [(2)よこ]  [横になる]    meaning:  lie down  rank: 1
☆ 大丈夫?横になったほうがいんじゃない? ⇨ Are you OK? Maybe you should lie down

► 名詞
  [(2)よこ]    meaning:  horizontal  rank: 1
☆ 2メートル、横5メートル ⇨ Vertically, height, 2 meters, horizontally, width, 5 meters
☆ は横にく ⇨ Crabs walk sideways
☆ 電線は横に走っている ⇨ The cables are running horizontally

  [(2)よこ]    meaning:  side  rank: 1
☆ カメラが横をいている ⇨ The camera is pointing sideways
☆ を横にいた ⇨ He put his bag on his side
☆ 彼等を横から攻撃した ⇨ They attacked the enemy from the side, flank
☆ 横から余計出すな ⇨ Don’t offer unsolicited opinion from the sidelines
☆ が横にれた ⇨ Our discussion got sidetracked

  [(2)よこ]    meaning:  peer  rank: 2
☆ は横のがりを大事にしている ⇨ He is valuing his peer network


More examples:
  • このでは汚職が横行している ⇨ Corruption is rampant in this country
  • なんて横柄な態度だ! ⇨ What an arrogant attitude!
  • 横浜市長 ⇨ The mayor of Yokohama city
  • 彼女を横目でいてた ⇨ She was looking at him with a sideways glance
  • 相手の横っ面に張り手をした ⇨ He slapped the other guy’s cheek, face
  • ゴルフ下手の横好きだ ⇨ H loves golf even though he is very bad at it
  • 横暴な独裁者 ⇨ An arbitrary dictator
  • を横切る左右てからに ⇨ When you cross a road look both your left and right carefully
  • 病院向けのを横流ししていた ⇨ He embezzled drugs for the hospital and sold them
  • あいつは横着なだ ⇨ He is a lazy bastard. He cuts corners with things
  • 現在テレビ画面は縦横が9:16の割合だ ⇨ The current TV screens have a 9:16 height-width ratio
  • 当学校の横顔を紹介致します ⇨ We give you a profile of our school
  • 横綱が引退して断髪した ⇨ A sumo champion retired and cut his hair
  • 上司の横暴に怒り炸裂した ⇨ My anger exploded against the authoritarian way of the boss
  • 行き交う突っ走って横切った ⇨ He sprinted across the road cars are going by